The state of health literacy in pregnant women

WILHELMOVÁ, Radka and Liana GREIFFENEGGOVÁ. The state of health literacy in pregnant women. In IX. mezinárodní sympozium : součinnost teorie a praxe v kvalitní péči : sborník příspěvků. 2016. ISBN 978-80-7394-600-5.

Basic information

Original name

The state of health literacy in pregnant women

Authors

WILHELMOVÁ, Radka (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Liana GREIFFENEGGOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

IX. mezinárodní sympozium : součinnost teorie a praxe v kvalitní péči : sborník příspěvků, 2016

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14110/16:00092451

Organization unit

Faculty of Medicine

ISBN

978-80-7394-600-5

Keywords in English

Health literacy; Pregnancy; Education; Preparation for maternity; Midwife

Tags

EL OK

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Abstract

V originále

Health literacy (HL) is a significant determinant in women's and children's health. It is a precondition for advanced health awareness in individuals and consequently their responsible behavior both of which reinforces healthy life style choices and put these into practice within families; at the same time supporting health and children's prenatal and postnatal physiological development. Simultaneously, health illiteracy in women has a negative influence on social health awareness which results in health defects, complications during pregnancy and labor, it also plays its role in later stages of a woman's and child's lives. It is midwives who are the key protagonists acting in the aforementioned areas with their specific educational skills and competences.